Author: UCATT news releases

UCATT members will be receiving copies of the latest edition of the Building Worker in the next few days. If members wish to read the latest edition online it is now available at...

Around 380 employees at Dundee City Council could see their contracts taken over by private contractor Tayside Contracts, if the council outsources its building and maintenance work. The council has...

The Scottish Government will call in ACAS to audit the Queensferry construction site after UCATT revealed migrant labourers being paid well below recognised industry rates. SNP Economy Secretary,...

Crossrail contractor shockingly admits in revealing emails to: Abuse of workforce to exhaustion levels Toilets 1 hour walk away- No basic facilities Targeting of employees who complain Sinister...

Construction union UCATT is calling on the Government to address the damaging flaws in its much trumpeted auto-enrolment pension scheme, as part of a review announced this week. Currently, thousands...

UCATT held a protest this morning outside of the Crossrail depot in Holborn.  The protest was agains the ongoing policies of the Costain led-ATC consortium. The company are refusing to pay...

The Chief Executives Report to the Health and Safety Executive Board meeting on the 7th December 2016, has highlighted the ongoing dangers for construction workers.   The HSE conducted 1840...

  Scottish Labour MSP, Neil Findlay, has moved quickly to challenge the Scottish Government over poverty-level wages being paid to southern European building workers on the Forth Crossing...

Construction union UCATT are calling on the Scottish Government to conduct an urgent independent pay audit for worker’s operating on the Forth Crossing in order to reassert confidence that workers...

Construction union UCATT are calling on the Scottish Government to conduct an urgent independent pay audit for worker’s operating on the Forth Crossing in order to reassert confidence that workers...